> > I've noticed that the X11R6 I compiled for my Sparc running NetBSD-1.1
> > has some problems with .Xauthority. Very often it doesn't seem to be able
> > to read it, for no reason. Using xauth to read it works, and right after using
> > xauth, the problem disappears (for some time):
> 
> Your .Xauthority is not world-readable, and xterm is dumb enough to try and
> read it with its setuid-bit in effect.

Of course, you _really_ don't want to make .Xauthority
world-readable...  8-)


chris